Attack of the Trilobite!

The local television station in Louisville FOX41 is promoting the Falls of the Ohio State Park fossil hikes and the capital campaign.  They also have some fun with the fossils and you can see it on a video in this link: Attack of the Trilobite Video


Volunteer naturalist Paul Olliges is on the video explaining the fossils beds of the Falls of the Ohio State Park on morning news program.  At they end though they are chased by a trilobite.  Whew!  I hope they survived that attack.

Of course, if the Syfy Channel sees this video, there could be a B-movie in the near future.  It can join the ranks of classics such as Anonymous Rex, Dinocroc vs. Supergator. Dinoshark, Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep,  Mega Snake, and Sea Beast.

Calamites of the Pennsylvanian Period

Plant fossils recently found in Hazard (Perry County) Kentucky in the Breathitt Group.  These fossils appear to be Calamites from the Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Period.  These imprints have been sealed to prevent the carbon layer from flaking off.  The fossil imprint is over 20 cm in length.

Close-up of nodes in the trunk.

 Learn more about these types of fossils at the Kentucky Paleontological Society web site.

Thanks to my cousin for letting me photograph this specimen.

Hexagonaria hexagona Coral

Middle Devonian Period coral fossil found in Givet (Ardennes) stored in Muséum National D'Historie Naturelle Jardin Des Plantes Paléontologie et Anatomie Comparée, Paris, France.  The coral is called Hexagonaria hexagona (Goldfuss).